Create Your Crystal Intention Setting Journal
To create a Crystal Intention Setting journal, you’ll want to find a blank journal that you will use for this purpose only. It can be plain, or it can be colorful, but make sure it is one that you will enjoy writing in daily. If you want, feel free to decorate your intention setting journal with things that reflect your visions. After you have picked the journal you wish to use, divide it into seven sections that are generally equal in pages.
Next, create different tabs for each of the corresponding chakras or life areas you wish to change with post-it-notes, or other dividers to divide the sections. Attach them to the first page of each section so that you can find the section you want quickly. You should be able to spot the tabs when you pick up your journal quickly.
Write Your Intentions
Once you finish, you can add your first intention. Write an intention in the most important area of your life for the first page. Think about one thing you wish to change in each chakra or a specific area of your life. You might choose to write the intentions in your journal, or you could cut and paste images from magazines to serve as a vision board.
To use your Crystal Intention Setting journal, hold the healing stone that corresponds with each section. Say your intention out loud or silently to yourself. The crystal you are holding will release its energy and amplify the power of your intention. You are creating a positive shift in your mind, body, and spirit. Perform this exercise for one intention or create a small ceremony that incorporates all seven chakras and intentions with seven corresponding crystals.
Examples of Intentions:
You can even use the blank pages of your journal to keep track of your life. For example, you may have been working on your abundance intention in the past. If all of a sudden, you get a raise at work, be sure to write it down in your journal. Writing it down helps you see for sure how well intentions work. It’s an excellent reminder that personal transformation occurs in many ways.
You may also wish to rewrite your intentions in the journal. You’ll want to do this because your intentions and personal goals can change over time. Always check your goals every couple of months to make sure that they still align with what you had hoped to change about your life.
]]>One of the most important factors in using crystals effectively is to set intentions carefully. Different crystals have diverse properties that make them helpful for specific uses, but all crystals need their user to inform them of the way they can help. To tell crystals their purpose in our lives, this is why setting intentions is such an essential part of using crystals to heal and feel positive energy.
There are different reasons for why you like specific crystals. Often, a color, shape, or size of a crystal may draw you to it. You need to trust in your intuition when selecting crystals that seem to resonate with you. Once you make a choice, it is essential to set your intention for how you want the crystal to work in your life.
Cleanse Your Crystal
It is also essential to perform a cleanse of any negative energy from the crystal before beginning to use it. The reason why you need to cleanse the crystal is to release the energy from other people who handled the crystal before you.
If you've ever bought used clothes or furniture before, you may have noticed that the owners' energies are still with it. While it may take some time to notice, if you are sensitive to energy, you may have picked up on it. When working with crystals, you'll want the energy to be neutral so that you can program them with your specific intentions.
To release the energy of other people from the crystals, you will need a sage smudge stick. Light the sage and hold the crystal over the smoke. Set the intention for the sage smoke to release any other person's energy from the crystal. Wave the smoke over the crystal a few times until you feel the energy has shifted to neutral.
Before you set an intention with a crystal, clear your mind of any negative thoughts. When you are placing an intention into a crystal, having a clear mind will help you focus the intention into the crystal. Choose intentions that focus on both short and long term goals. Hold the crystal up to your mind's eye, the space in the middle of your forehead. You can silently say the intention to the crystal or choose to speak your intention out loud. Alternatively, you can also write it down. It can also be beneficial to hold the crystal over one's third eye.
After setting an intention, keep the crystal close by so that it stays on your mind. Consider the crystal as a visual affirmation of your intention. Send positive energy to your crystal when you think of your intentions. Doing this helps the positive energy expand within you so that you feel more positive about manifesting your goals and intentions. You can choose to reaffirm your intentions daily, weekly, or monthly.
]]>Specific areas within the body house individual chakras, and each correspond to a symbolic color connected to spiritual energy. Crystals also match their use with distinct chakras based on color and help in balancing chakras. Crystals can direct the chakra energy flow to soothe your mind and work on the problem areas of your body. If chakra flows are blocked, it could cause more harm than good. Crystals, healing energy, and positive thoughts can unblock these compromised chakra flows.
The flow of your chakras is determined by what you do on a daily basis and can include what you think, how you act, and what you feel. Chakras may become unbalanced as you go about your everyday life. You can use chakra-balancing crystals as part of your daily routine to get your chakras back in balance. The appropriate crystal match to the right chakra increases its energy flow in that problem area of your body.
How to Match Crystals to Specific Chakras
It can be as easy as choosing the color of the crystal to match the chakras to balance them in your body. For example, place a red-colored crystal on your root chakra. Place a white-colored crystal on your crown chakra.
Follow this color guide for selecting crystals to balance your chakras:
Root Chakra
A black or red crystal that you could choose for your root chakra includes a black tourmaline, garnet, or red jasper. The location of your root chakra is at the foundation of your spine. An unbalanced root chakra can lead to sadness, anxiousness, uncertainty, feeling ungrounded, and pains or complications in your lower extremities such as constipation, feet, or back pain.
Sacral Chakra
Any orange crystal would balance the sacral chakra, including carnelian, amber, and orange calcite. The position of your sacral chakra is in the area below your navel. If you experience an unbalanced sacral chakra, many sexually related imbalances could occur, such as a compromised sex drive, infertility, monthly womanly issues, UTIs, and intestinal problems. It also is associated with creativity, and you could notice a lack of the desire to be creative.
Solar Plexus
Yellow crystals, including golden honey calcite and citrine, will help to balance your solar plexus chakra, and its position is in the center of your chest. You could experience a medley of physical problems if this chakra is unbalanced, including a lack of willpower, loss of confidence, negative body awareness, memory complications, trouble breathing, metabolic issues, and difficulty sleeping.
Heart Chakra
Pink or green crystals balance the heart chakra, such as green fluorite, rose quartz, and ruby in zoisite. The location of your heart chakra is in the same area as your heart. If this chakra is unbalanced, you may experience trust issues, commitment problems, inability to forgive people, pain in your shoulder or upper back, recurring negative memories, or respiratory complications.
Throat Chakra
Blue kyanite, sodalite, lapis lazuli, and turquoise will work to balance your throat chakra. If you experience an imbalance in the throat chakra, you may experience nervousness, communication issues, coping difficulties, difficulty in finding the right words to say, speaking problems, not wishing to talk with anyone, and sinus, dental, or throat complications could occur.
Third Eye
A purple or violet crystal such as amethyst, labradorite, or sodalite will work to balance your third eye chakra. Issues may occur with having anxiety about the future, loss of psychic abilities, refusal to change behaviors, addictions, and brain disorders, headaches, and trouble learning if this chakra is not balanced. The position of your third eye chakra is in the middle of your forehead.
Crown Chakra
Choose a clear stone for your crown chakra such as selenite, moonstone, white quartz, Herkimer diamonds, or angel aura quartz. If this chakra is not balanced, you may experience a lack of connection with yourself, a feeling that you're inauthentic, stress, overwhelm, no sense of compassion for other people, headaches, dizziness, feeling out of sorts with yourself, inability to focus.
Balance your chakras through meditation with crystals. You can lay down with each crystal placed in its proper area and absorb the energy through meditation. Delve into your mind as you feel each color crystal merging with your body to give you balancing energies. This process helps to work with your problem areas in your body and address them one by one to create the balance in your mind and body.
Consider balancing your chakras to address the physical, mental, and emotional issues plaguing your body. You will feel more cleansed, healthy, and satisfied after balancing your chakras.
]]>The Science Behind the Power
The question remains - do crystals have healing power? Looking into crystals, you will see that they do nothing more or less than project the vibrations they receive. There was a study conducted by IBM scientist Marcel Vogel, who was able to see crystals he grew under a microscope change shape to his thoughts while watching them. His discovery led him to believe that crystals are amplifying the emotions and energy that a person emits.
Recently, there was also a study conducted by Navya Mysore MD, who advised that there is no scientific evidence suggesting that crystals can cure illnesses. Her theory makes sense if we also consider Vogel’s findings. Diseases are not negative energies, and crystals are intention amplifiers. Therefore, they cannot amplify cure because “cure” is not an emotion.
The Colors of Persuasion
Though amplifying emotions can emit positive energies, there is more to crystals than that. Colors are just as important. Our ancestors discovered 2,500 years ago that light was healing and essential to health. The colors associated with healing and happiness, or other positive emotions, included the colors red, yellow, and orange. These colors also boost a person’s ability to avoid getting sick.
Colors, including blue, violet, and green, enhance more feelings of balance and calmness. Many people say that yellow is a warm color like the sun and sunshine, where blue is a cool color, and dark as night.
When people think of how crystals work, healing through setting the intention as a positive affirmation with crystals and colors can help you achieve what you desire. Using crystals with intention can work towards the goals you want.
Intentionally Creating Your Power
The power of persuasion is real. In a placebo study, half of the people participating received information about crystals, and all of them heard they might experience physical sensations such as tingling and heightened emotions. The results were equally effective, even with real crystals given to the other half of the group who did not hear what they may experience. The hypothesis was that crystals created the experience based on what the person using them believed.
Considering this study, the power of persuasion affects healing when you have a clear understanding of what you want to achieve and believe in it. What you actively create intentions, and build in positive emotions, you will attract that emotion and magnify it when using crystals as a visual affirmation and reminder of your intentions.
The healing that crystals then supply comes from releasing layers of negative feelings you may have experienced in the past. Some of these feelings can include doubt, low confidence, apathy, depression, and anxiety. By using crystals as a visual affirmation and source of beauty, you open your mind to accepting positive emotions towards your goals. Creating more positive emotions is what heals negative ones.
Collecting Things is In Our Nature
Remember when you were a kid, and you enjoyed toys, rocks, and seashells? You likely collected more than one toy to play with at home, and probably had a set of characters from your favorite movie or cartoon show. Crystal experts say that we picked up rocks, wanted toys, and possibly even collected bugs like fireflies because it was fun.
When we were kids, we spent more time in nature and collected things from it because we wanted to take a piece of nature inside to still be with us. Many people, as adults, still feel a need to connect with that same earth energy. Crystals are popular because they not only fill that need but also give us hope and inspiration towards our goals.
Different Meanings for Various Crystals
Experts recommend choosing crystals without knowing what they mean but collecting crystals that draw you towards them. If you look up a crystal, you’ll likely find dozens of different meanings for it. Most of them have more than one intention in several life areas like finances, relationships, and wellbeing. Try to choose the one you feel called to before you research it.
Alternatively, you can also choose a crystal based on its meaning. Most crystal shops have the purpose of the crystal listed for you to see. If you aren’t sure how to pick your first crystal, choose one that you like. It could be the color, the shape, or a combination of both that you want. Hold it in your hand and try to sense the crystal with your feelings. Don’t make it harder than it has to be! If you feel attracted to a specific crystal, then that is the one you can use right now in your life.
How to Use Your Healing Crystal
Using crystals can involve several different things to do for healing. Here are a few suggestions on how to use your crystal:
While healing crystals don’t have magical powers, they can be powerful reminders for their owners. They can help you feel more empowered in your life and will remind you to put your self-care first. You’ll be encouraged to focus on yourself and your goals when you find the right crystal for you. If you aren’t quite sure what to think, try choosing a crystal for yourself, and see. It can’t hurt to try!
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